March 2022
HMRC is simplifying customs processes for humanitarian being sent to Ukraine. Businesses, charities and community organisations sending aid from British ports will be able to make a customs declaration by speaking to customs officers or simply by the act of driving through a port, it says.
They will no longer need to complete and submit electronic customs declarations to HMRC before exporting these goods, and smaller movements will not need to ...
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German rail operator DB Cargo and forwarder DB Schenker have sent the first container train from Seddin to Krakow with 15 containers of aid for Ukraine.
The 350-tonne cargo includes sleeping bags, sleeping mats, diapers, canned food, drinking water, warm clothing and baby food and medical goods.
Donations are collected by truck ...
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The Kuehne+Nagel Group has pledged SFR10 million emergency aid to Ukraine under its Colleagues for Colleagues employee fundraising campaign. It will be provided in the form of free logistics services to leading aid organisations for the transport and temporary storage of relief goods to Ukraine as well as Poland, Slovakia, ...
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Kuehne+Nagel has appointed Laparkan Trading Company as its partner in Georgetown, Guyana, and RS Gamble in Kingston, Jamaica as its independent non-exclusive agent.
Laparkan has over 36 years providing ground-handling services to a range of overseas cargo operations. Guyana is considered one of the fastest-growing economies globally and an emerging ...
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AP Moller Maersk’s Performance Team arm is to open an integrated cold chain facility in Houston. The new facility will open in August 2022 and will offer a 90’ loading dock that is temperature-controlled and protected from the elements. The company also worked closely with the USDA on the design ...
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Hapag-Lloyd has reached agreement to acquire the container liner business of Africa specialist DAL, subject to regulatory approval. DAL operates four liner services between Europe, South Africa and the Indian Ocean and has its own offices in Germany and South Africa as well as through third-party agents in 47 countries ...
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Brittany Ferries is planning to operate a full complement of ships and this summer, for the first time since the Covid outbreak.
The operator’s first LNG powered vessel, the Salamanca, will sail for the first time with passengers from Portsmouth to Bilbao on 27 March. As well as connecting the UK ...
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Suffolk forwarder Regine Haertel is calling on more women to combat industry stereotypes in male-dominated industries as part of International Women’s Day.
Haertel, who works at Great Blakenham-based Morrison Freight, said she has never let her gender stop her from pursuing her goals. Born in Germany, previously worked as a building ...
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Hutchison Ports Port of Felixstowe has broken its own record for the most containers handled on a single ship for the third time in two months with 27,961teu on the MSC Amelia which sailed from the port on 8 March. The previous record was 25,852teu on the Moscow Maersk the ...
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Envirotainer has made the first commercial shipment using its new Releye RAP temperature-controlled container aboard a Swiss WorldCargo flight. The shipment started in Basel, Switzerland, landing at JFK in the US and comprised three Releye RAP units and two RAP e2 units, on behalf of a Swiss pharmaceutical company. The ...
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